When you want all the government goodies but don't want to pay taxes the revenue has to come from somewhere. Blaming it on welfare queens doesn't work at the city level, they can't just go on borrowing forever.

1) Let the timing on traffic signals go awry2) Station a cop by the farked-up signals3) Ticket the people who run the lights4) Profit

This is how they roll in New York. You can be driving along at 3 in the morning past a stretch of strip malls where every single store has been closed for six hours and won't even be taking deliveries for another four, and yet the signal at that strip mall will turn red on you (with a reeeeeal short yellow). That's where the cop will be. Boom - a ticket for you, revenue for Albany's ravening maw, and roads that have become MORE and not less dangerous. And because there are so many people 'running red lights', this, of course, necessitates lower speed limits and additonal traffic signals which...oh hell, just goto 1). It's for the children.

This reminds about an article I saw on Fark awhile back. It was a really interesting piece, discussing how Albany, as the biggest city in New York, should be sharing more of its money with the rest of the state.

Just because the city claims a lot of land in its annexed boundary does not make it a real city. A city has people and population density. A sprawling collection of mobile home parks, strip malls and single family homes has no means to provide the services a real city provides. But the local numbskulls want to keep calling it a city, then act amazed when it fails to behave as one normally would. Also, Florida.

vpb:When you want all the government goodies but don't want to pay taxes the revenue has to come from somewhere. Blaming it on welfare queens doesn't work at the city level, they can't just go on borrowing forever.

Kind of like biatching about shiatty news articles when you're reading the articles on line for free.

They should move to the Best Coast's Orange County. The roads running between burbclaves are ridiculously fast. There's a stretch of Irvine Blvd. near the old military base that's posted 65. Many of the more urban stretches of road are posted 50.

StrikitRich:timujin: PhiloeBedoe: From the FFA: In a city with close to 828,000 people, the largest city in land mass in the country, you might think an engineer to track the traffic would be a necessity.

Which city is that again?

The largest one in the continental US? Guess the editor took the weekend off.

I was really referring to what seemed like PhiloeBedoe's defense of the headline with a fact that didn't pertain to the city that was originally named.

Jacksonville is a hole on the earth, but like many other parts of FL the beach redeems the rest of the area. If you live a walkable distance from the beach it's worth living in a city that is as backwards as Jacksonville. Nothing quite compares to coming home at night, grabbing a beer and staring at the ocean till the sun goes down.

Alphakronik:Still better than Portland, Oregon's traffic engineer that would rather put stop lights on on-ramps to freeways rather than have drivers education teach people how to merge at the proper speed.

The lights on on-ramps aren't there because people don't know how to merge, they are there to help keep the traffic spread out. Without the lights, people will tend to merge on to the freeway right after bunch of cars pass, thus creating a slightly larger bunch of cars. These large bunches of cars then don't have enough space to change lanes to get to their off-ramps and such.

Alphakronik:Still better than Portland, Oregon's traffic engineer that would rather put stop lights on on-ramps to freeways rather than have drivers education teach people how to merge at the proper speed.

I can't even imagine how a stoplight could possibly help; unless you put them on the interstate as well, the two still need to merge eventually.

Sim Tree:Alphakronik: Still better than Portland, Oregon's traffic engineer that would rather put stop lights on on-ramps to freeways rather than have drivers education teach people how to merge at the proper speed.

I can't even imagine how a stoplight could possibly help; unless you put them on the interstate as well, the two still need to merge eventually.

Basically, the idea is that by putting spaces between the cars, you can create holes into which people can merge, which helps prevent traffic jams. Without them, you just get clumps of cars and it's very difficult to change lanes into a wall of cars.

MayoSlather:Jacksonville is a hole on the earth, but like many other parts of FL the beach redeems the rest of the area. If you live a walkable distance from the beach it's worth living in a city that is as backwards as Jacksonville. Nothing quite compares to coming home at night, grabbing a beer and staring at the ocean till the sun goes down.

Jax has a very small portion that consists of San Marco, Springfield, Riverside, and downtown that is a pretty good thing. The beach sucks ass. If you want a good beach in florida, the gulf coast rocks. Jax and Neptune beach are nasty, as are the people that frequent it, as evidenced by the bar Petes at the beach, the Ritz, and the Lemon Bar, total redneck ass hattery.